Thursday, June 14, 2018

Ian McCausland in Canada is "utterly fancinated" with a new genre called Cli-Fi

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I am utterly fancinated with a new subgenre of storts called Cli Fi thats hard science fiction with a focus on the environment.

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Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction

This list collects fiction books that deal with climate change. Examples are Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" or "The Aviator" by Gareth Renowden. More recently, Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior" and Nathaniel Rich's "Odds Against Tomorrow" have achieved the status of best-selling cli-fi novels, demonstrating the differences between cli-fi and science fiction: cli-fi is more literary and more centered on human psychology.
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 182,022 ratings
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The Windup Girl

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 3.74 avg rating — 54,265 ratings
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The Water Knife

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 3.83 avg rating — 16,455 ratings
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The Year of the Flood  (Mad...

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 4.06 avg rating — 84,987 ratings
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The Beast of Cretacea

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 4.07 avg rating — 288 ratings
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The Wastelanders

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 4.60 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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 3.84 avg rating — 54,367 ratings
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Forty Signs of Rain (Scienc...

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 3.53 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunge...

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 4.33 avg rating — 5,365,255 ratings
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MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)

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 3.99 avg rating — 47,051 ratings
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Station Eleven

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 4.03 avg rating — 219,657 ratings
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The Lorax

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 4.35 avg rating — 236,983 ratings
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Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

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 3.92 avg rating — 27,884 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electr...

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 4.08 avg rating — 269,104 ratings
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)

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 4.20 avg rating — 567,541 ratings
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Flight Behavior

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 3.76 avg rating — 69,899 ratings
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The Road

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 3.96 avg rating — 597,786 ratings
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Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)

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 3.92 avg rating — 22,446 ratings
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker,...

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 3.74 avg rating — 36,081 ratings
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The Islands at the End of t...

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 3.65 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
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State of Fear

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 3.69 avg rating — 73,421 ratings
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Gold Fame Citrus

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 3.29 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earth...

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 4.14 avg rating — 34,197 ratings
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Fifty Degrees Below (Scienc...

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 3.68 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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Sixty Days and Counting (Sc...

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 3.66 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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A Being Darkly Wise

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 3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings
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1/2986 (1/2986 #1)

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 3.85 avg rating — 589 ratings
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Global Cooling (The Time Bu...

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 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Drowned World

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 3.54 avg rating — 9,911 ratings
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The Collapse of Western Civ...

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 3.71 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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The Last Oracle (Sam Jardin...

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 4.57 avg rating — 53 ratings
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2047 Short stories from Our...

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 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Rain of Night Birds

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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New York 2140

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 3.59 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
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Ice (1/2986 #3)

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 4.31 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Fog (1/2986 #2)

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 4.15 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Memory of Water

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 3.71 avg rating — 3,923 ratings
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The Drowned Cities (Ship Br...

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 3.89 avg rating — 9,029 ratings
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The Bone Clocks

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 3.82 avg rating — 71,268 ratings
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Snow Crash

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 4.03 avg rating — 200,095 ratings
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Some Fine Day

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 3.79 avg rating — 585 ratings
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The Elementalists

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 3.95 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Mother of Storms

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 3.76 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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Storms Of My Grandchildren:...

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 4.01 avg rating — 919 ratings
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A Friend of the Earth

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 3.66 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
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Drowning Towers

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 3.85 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Rapture

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 3.32 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (...

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 4.02 avg rating — 196,049 ratings
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Heavy Weather

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 3.69 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
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Borne

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 3.91 avg rating — 11,904 ratings
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Starvation Ridge

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 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Survival Colony  Nine

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 3.47 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Polly and the One and Only ...

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 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age

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 3.90 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Stone Gate

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 3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Book of Dave: A Revelat...

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 3.55 avg rating — 2,911 ratings
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Haw

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 4.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Statisticity

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 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Ruby and the Blue Sky: A Ta...

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 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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South Pole Station

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 3.48 avg rating — 750 ratings
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The Rain Never Came

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 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Edge of Farallon

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Wrong Turn at the Office of...

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 3.57 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Blue Karma

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 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Rain Never Came

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 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broke...

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 4.31 avg rating — 50,838 ratings
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Raiders

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 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Jia Ting: The Raider Chroni...

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Change

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 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Clade

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 3.68 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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The Aviator (The Burning Wo...

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Escape to Canamith

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 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Ear...

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 4.22 avg rating — 14,675 ratings
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The Day After Tomorrow

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 3.89 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The Book of Strange New Things

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 3.66 avg rating — 23,095 ratings
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Not a Drop to Drink (Not a ...

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 3.82 avg rating — 10,755 ratings
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Solar

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 3.24 avg rating — 21,221 ratings
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The HAARP Letters

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 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Dog Stars

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 3.91 avg rating — 43,694 ratings
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Back to the Garden

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 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Solstice

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 3.64 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
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Nature's Confession

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 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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American War

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 3.82 avg rating — 17,039 ratings
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Pump Six and Other Stories

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 4.03 avg rating — 7,104 ratings
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Loosed Upon the World: The ...

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 3.87 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The New Atlantis

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 3.30 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Bees

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 3.67 avg rating — 24,064 ratings
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The Remnant (Left Behind, #10)

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 4.01 avg rating — 20,799 ratings
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The Drought

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 3.59 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
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Annihilation (Southern Reac...

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 3.66 avg rating — 97,128 ratings
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The Great Dune Trilogy

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 4.36 avg rating — 54,046 ratings
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In the Tears of God (Aquari...

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 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Healer

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 3.11 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Tipping Point (Robert Spire...

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 3.68 avg rating — 174 ratings
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HALINE

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 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Free:

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 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Surviving Abe

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 3.70 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Malevolent Tide

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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Forever Young Part One

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 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Sibyl Reborn

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 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
199 books · 270 voters · list created April 22nd, 2013 by Karl-Friedrich Lenz (votes) .
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message 1: by Peter (new)
PeterCongratulations to Dan Bloom for coining the term Cli-Fi !

I am glad to see that it is getting universally accepted.

Peter Kubicek
Author of "Memories of Evil" which can be viewed on GoodReads
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message 2: by Claude (last edited May 10, 2014 04:33AM) (new)
Claude NougatPeter wrote: "Congratulations to Dan Bloom for coining the term Cli-Fi !

I am glad to see that it is getting universally accepted.

Peter Kubicek
Author of "Memories of Evil" which can be viewed on GoodReads"


I support your congratulations! I too have written a cli-fi novel Forever Young...Cli-fi is important - a wake-up call, we can't go on the way we are and Dan Bloom has done so much to remind us all - now, it's our turn as writers!

Gateway to Forever (Forever Young, #1) by Claude Nougat
Gateway to Forever
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message 3: by Paul (new)
Paul CollinsThis is a great list - thank you! If you're interested in cli-fi, it would be great to see you at the folloiwng Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/32...

Paul
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message 4: by Paul (new)
Paul CollinsPeter wrote: "Congratulations to Dan Bloom for coining the term Cli-Fi !

I am glad to see that it is getting universally accepted.

Peter Kubicek
Author of "Memories of Evil" which can be viewed on GoodReads"


I agree, let's keep the momentum up! https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/32...
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message 5: by Paul (new)
Paul CollinsHere’s a very thought-provoking article by Professor Brigitte Nerlich on the potential role of cli-fi (climate fiction) to help engage people on climate changehttp://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makings...
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message 6: by Mary (new)
MaryYou and your readers might be interested in joininghttps://plus.google.com/u/0/communiti..., a new community group discussion nature themes in literature and the arts, with a focus on climate change
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message 7: by Mitchell (new)
MitchellClimate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science is non-fiction. And therefore presumably should not be on this list.
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message 8: by Angelina (new)
Angelina WernerThe Hunger Games is not about climate change, nor is Station Eleven, nor are several of the rest of the books on this list. Who put these together???? 

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